India
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · The Indian legislative system also provides for different...
- News items in the archive
- 1,856
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
India is classified as Retentionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 1,856 news items on India, from 1999 to today.
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- MAY 18, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. MAN WHO RAPED AND KILLED GIRL SENTENCED TO DEATH
a court in Gujarat, India, sentenced Ramesh Rathod to death for the rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl in 1999.
- MAY 17, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. AIMB DEMANDS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR US SOLDIERS WHO INSULTED KORAN
the All India Minority Board (AIMB) asked the US President George W Bush to award capital punishment to those soldiers who had insulted the holy Koran and seek public apology for their ''shameful acts''.
- MAY 11, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. NO CONSENSUS ON ABOLISHING DEATH PENALTY, HOME MINISTER
in the absence of a consensus on whether the death sentence should be abolished, Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil said the law would continue to be put into practice in its current form.
- MAY 7, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR UNION LEADER MURDER
the Jharkhand High Court, India, sentenced Shiv Shankar Singh and Umesh Singh to death in connection with the murder of trade union leader Gurudas Chatterjee on April 14, 2000.
- APRIL 30, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING FAMILY MEMBERS
the Additional Sessions court in Champua, in the Indian state of Orissa, sentenced Sukra Munda to death after convicting him of killing his parents and one of his sisters with an axe.
- APRIL 28, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. DEATH PENALTY TOO HARSH JUDGMENT, LAWYER FOR SEVEN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN AMERICAN CENTRE ATTACK
the following are transcripts of an interview with Anirban Roy, lawyer for Aftab Ansar and six others condemned to death on April 27 for the attack on Calcutta’s American Centre on January 22, 2002.
- APRIL 28, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. AWARD DEATH PENALTY TO POACHERS, MINISTER
creating environmental awareness and awarding death penalty to poachers were essential if adventure tourism was to succeed in India, Tourism Minister Renuka Choudhary said.
- APRIL 26, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. SEVEN SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER AMERICAN CENTRE ATTACK
a court in Calcutta, India, sentenced seven men to death over the killing of five policemen guarding US government offices in the city on January 22, 2002.
- APRIL 25, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR MAN CONVICTED OF KILLING HIS WIVES
it was reported that Saibanna, facing trial for murdering his first wife Malakawwa, married another woman, Nagamma.
- APRIL 25, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. YOUTH SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF GIRL
first Additional Sessions Judge, K. Sasidharan Nair, sentenced a 27-year-old youth, Thomas alias Shikhamani, to death
- APRIL 20, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
India abstained from the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
India abstained from the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
- APRIL 17, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR CHILDREN'S MURDER
for the first time in recent history, a sessions court in Bangalore, India, sentenced to death three youths for kidnapping and murdering two children at Eklaspura village in Raichur.
- APRIL 14, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR MAN CONVICTED OF MURDER
the Supreme Court of India upheld the death penalty imposed by a trial court in Assam on Holiram Bordoloi, “a village leader who killed three people to show his supremacy among others”.
- APRIL 13, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. THREE FAMILY MEMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN TRIPLE MURDER CASE
a local court in Sonepat, India, sentenced three members of a family to death in a triple murder case.
- APRIL 12, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. CAMPAIGN AGAINST DEATH PENALTY GAINS SUPPORT
the film actors Murali and K.B. Ganesh Kumar, MLA, were among those who had signed the human rights memorial mass memorandum against death penalty in India.
- MARCH 29, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF 11-YR-OLD GIRL
the second fast track court in Cooch Behar, India, sentenced Nepal Mandal to death for raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl in 1999.
- MARCH 13, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. 'INDIA CARRIED OUT 1,422 EXECUTIONS IN A DECADE', RIGHTS GROUP
the People's Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR), a leading Indian civil rights group, said that 1,422 executions were carried out in a single decade (1953-63) across the country.
- MARCH 10, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. END TO BEHEADING OF NATIONALS IN SAUDI ARABIA URGED
the Gandheeya Navasakthi Sanghom party urged the Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, to take immediate steps to end the beheading of Indian citizens by the Saudi Arabian authorities on charges of drug trafficking.
- MARCH 9, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. DEATH PENALTY FOR TWO CONVICTED OF RAPING AND KILLING 8 YEAR OLD
the Kamrup District and Sessions Court in Guwahati, India, sentenced to death two people in connection with the rape and murder of a minor girl.
- MARCH 7, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. HIGH COURT CONVERTS TIKA RAM'S DEATH PENALTY TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
the High Court in New Delhi, India, commuted into life imprisonment the death penalty passed on Tika Ram for the 1994 murders of five members of the Sharmas family in the city's Vasant Kunj area.
- MARCH 6, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPE CONVICTS
a fast-track court in India sentenced to death two men named Ramniwas and Balbir after convicting them of raping and murdering a nursing student.
- MARCH 6, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. INDIAN NATIONAL BEHEADED FOR MURDER
Malaya Maroti Bajantra, an Indian man convicted of murdering his compatriot, was beheaded in the Hafar al-Batin town in Saudi Arabia. Bajantra killed Hakim Ahmed Pasha and robbed him, said a report by the country's Interior Ministry.
- MARCH 4, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
the Kolkata high, India, confirmed the death sentences handed down to three people, Alok Nath Dutta, Mrinal Dutta and Shiv Shankar Roy, for killing a relative over a property dispute.
- FEBRUARY 22, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Indian national Sayyid Elwy, convicted of smuggling...
Indian national Sayyid Elwy, convicted of smuggling...
- FEBRUARY 15, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRIPLE MURDER
a fast track court in Surat, India, sentenced Baghvan Behra to be hanged till death for the murder of his sister-in-law, his neighbour and his nephew on September 10, 2002 in Tulsinagar, Surat city.
- FEBRUARY 10, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
India's Supreme Court ordered the death sentence for a man
India's Supreme Court ordered the death sentence for a man
- FEBRUARY 7, 2005BrazilDEATH PENALTY
an Indonesian court sentenced two foreigners, a Brazilian and an Indian, to death for drug trafficking
an Indonesian court sentenced two foreigners, a Brazilian and an Indian, to death for drug trafficking
- FEBRUARY 6, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
a Madhya Pradesh court in India sentenced to death five people
a Madhya Pradesh court in India sentenced to death five people
- FEBRUARY 5, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed an Indian convicted of murder in the southern region of Aseer
Indian national Gotham Krishna was sentenced to death for setting light to a fellow Indian in his sleep because of a dispute between them, the ministry said in a statement.
- FEBRUARY 5, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Lalit Kumar Yadav was sentenced to death
Lalit Kumar Yadav was sentenced to death